If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Pandora, a compact 325-kilogram spacecraft, boasts a novel 45-centimetre all-aluminium telescope developed with Lawrence ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to recognize biology may no longer be enough. When you purchase through links on our ...

The search for habitable worlds beyond the solar system now faces a more technical obstacle than distance: uncertainty in the ...

NASA is set to launch the Pandora space telescope on January 11 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. The mission ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...